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Forgive and forget?

When people talk about forgiving and forgetting, they are assuming that everyone will forgive and forget.  But what they don’t realise is that sometimes doing the two is NOT a good or sensible thing to do.

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16 years already?

Can you believe this?  16 years ago today, Kevin and I said “I do” to each other.  It was the best day of my life up until that point.

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Blocks

No, I’m not going to be talking about the small blocks or bricks that young children put together or pile on top of each other.

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Pick of the Week 23

I am pretty sure I have told you that it wasn’t until my 50th year that I did something (nope, can’t remember what) that I didn’t need somebody else to tell me was good because I KNEW it was good and I was proud of it myself.  

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Pick of the week 21

I guess this is a little bit of a strange one, considering the one I posted about the start of a day and how it was, but of course there was a build-up, a particular set of circumstances that led to the events that occurred. 

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